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100 good deeds

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Posted: Sun Feb 04, 2007 5:13 pm

I remember a long time ago reading about Buddhism and I recall from that text that in order to be a buddha one must have done 100 good deeds. I remembered thinking "100? That's very little."

So now I started to look that up again but I don't find anything on the net saying that. I'm confused now. If not, then where did 100 good deeds comes from?
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Posted: Tue Feb 06, 2007 12:21 pm

I have no idea where that would come from. I've never heard of it before.

Tenzin Chodron
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Posted: Tue Feb 12, 2008 7:35 pm

Dang! 100 is an awfully small number considering that Buddhists are accustomed to thinking about vast, endless stretches of time. It sounds like everyone would be a Buddha by the time of death if that were true biggrin

Perhaps it comes from "100 Good Deeds for Eddie McDowd"? http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0218744/

"10,000" often indicates infinity in Chinese literature, so perhaps that could have something to do with the saying you're thinking of?

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